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17444 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 718 of them this year alone and, so far, 100 this month (Oct. 10).

From This Moment On ...

October

Tue 15: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Alan Law (piano), Paul Grainger (double bass), Bailey Rudd (drums).

Wed 16: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 16: Cath Stephens’ improvisation workshop @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 4:30-6:00pm. Collaborative group focusing on vocal improvisations.
Wed 16: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 16: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 17: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 17: Olivia Cuttill Quintet @ King’s Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Free.
Thu 17: Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK: Glenn Miller & Big Band Spectacular @ Phoenix Theatre, Blyth. 7:30pm.
Thu 17: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. Ragtime piano. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 17: Niffi Osiyemi Trio @ The Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free.
Thu 17: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. Guests Jeremy McMurray (keys); Richie Emmerson (tenor sax); Mark Toomey (alto sax); Adrian Beadnell (bass). 8:30pm. Free.

Fri 18: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 18: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 18: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 18: Hot Club du Nord @ St Cuthbert’s, Crook. 7:30pm.
Fri 18: Chet Set @ Seventeen Nineteen, Hendon, Sunderland. 7:30pm. Pete Tanton & co.
Fri 18: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. Doors 7:30pm (upstairs). A Hoodoo Blues dance & social event. £10.00. class & social (£10.00., £7.50., £5.00. social only). Michael Woods (country blues guitar) on stage 9:00pm.
Fri 18: East Coast Swing Band @ Hexham Abbey. 7:30pm. £9.00.
Fri 18: Ben Crosland Quartet @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 18: Durham University Jazz Society’s ‘High Standards’ @ Music Dept. Music Room, Divinity House, Palace Green, Durham University DH1 3RS. 8:009-30pm. Tel: 0191 334 1419. £7.00., £5.00.
Fri 18: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ Blues Underground, Nelson St., Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.

Sat 19: Sat 19: Paula Jackman’s Jazz Masters @ St Augustine’s Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Jeff Hewer Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 19: Howlin’ Mat @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Country blues guitar & vocals. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sun 20: Kamasi Washington @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 7:30pm. POSTPONED! New date Saturday 5 April 2025.
Sun 20: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick-upon-Tweed. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 20: Magpies of Swing @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 21: Gideon Tazelaar Quartet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Mon 21: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 21: Gideon Tazelaar Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm.

Tue 22: Bywater Call @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). Americana/blues/soul excellence.

Reviewers wanted

Whilst BSH attempts to cover as many gigs, festivals and albums as possible, to make the site even more comprehensive we need more 'boots on the ground' to cover the albums seeking review - a large percentage of which never get heard - report on gigs or just to air your views on anything jazz related. Interested? then please get in touch. Contact details are on the blog. Look forward to hearing from you. Lance

Monday, July 07, 2014

Swing City Trio with Colin Aitchison & Franco Valussi @ Blaydon Jazz Club. July 6

Roly Veitch (guitar & vocals), Steve Andrews (tenor saxophone), Roy Cansdale (double bass), Colin Aitchison (trumpet & vocals) & Franco Valussi (clarinet) + Kenny Sugawara (banjo)
(Review by Russell/photo courtesy of Colin Aitchison).
On a warm summer’s evening Blaydon Jazz Club hosted an international all star session. The Black Bull on Bridge Street welcomed musicians from all four corners of the world. The Swing City Trio (hailing from Tyneside, Cumbria and Gloucestershire) were joined by friends from Hong Kong, Italy and Japan.
Blaydon Jazz Club added an extra date to the July schedule to secure an appearance from ex-pat trumpeter Colin Aitchison. The Hong Kong-resident Geordie bon viveur arranged a week’s worth of gigs at watering holes on his old stomping ground. He brought with him two musician friends from Kowloon – Franco Valussi (clarinet) and Kenny Sugawara (banjo). 
A good crowd filled the lounge at the Black Bull, keen with anticipation. Swing was on the menu and the all stars opened with Rosetta. Valussi took a first solo. Wow! A good decision to be at Blaydon! Swing City’s tenor man Steve Andrews cast an admiring glance at Valussi’s clarinet (a seriously expensive model, apparently) as liquid gold notes poured forth. Originally from Trieste, Italy, Valussi went on to enthrall the audience with his superb playing, tune after tune. Aitchison sang Ain’t Misbehavin’ and blew the first of many top flight solos as Valussi played more great clarinet and Blaydon’s main man Roly Veitch stepped out of the shadows (metaphorically that is, he remained seated). Veitch, a student of the swing era, performed with minimal amplification, as did his rhythm strings partner Roy Cansdale (double bass). The frontline didn’t require amplification, all three possessing and projecting a big sound.
I Saw Stars (Veitch vocals), Memories of You, On the Sunny Side of the Street, the choice material seemingly endless. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (‘in the right key’ quipped Andrews) heard Aitchison with plunger mute. Andrews was in fine form as jester (the one about Alzheimer’s at a Penrith filling station, then the one about the Y reg Corsa) and as tenor saxophonist. A fabulous player. Kenny Sugawara, a banjo player from Japan has been resident in Hong Hong for thirty years and leads the Hot Chop Suey Jazz Band. He joined the Blaydon party to play a couple of tunes and stayed on to play a couple more, to the delight of the audience. When You’re Smiling (Mr Sugawara did) showed the man from the Land of the Rising Sun could play. Mr B.Bennett is, no doubt, in the woodshed sharpening his chops in advance of welcoming Mr Sugawara later this week to the Vieux Carré Jazzmen’s regular sessions.
Struttin’ With Some Barbecue. Was that Satchmo or Colin Aitchison? One and the same such is the Kowloon Geordie’s love of the trumpet and vocal style of the man. Royal Garden Blues capped a grand night at the Black Bull. It isn’t often that you hear such fine musicians from all corners of the globe in Blaydon. Next time you’re in Hong Kong look up Colin and the boys at Ned Kelly’s Last Stand. You’re guaranteed Jazz, Blues and Booze, so says the t-shirt. Bring one home with you as a souvenir and proudly wear it at Blaydon Jazz Club.
The next concert at the Black Bull features Zoe Gilby. Tyneside’s international star vocalist will be working with Andy Champion, Mark Williams and Richard Brown.
Make a date in the diary – Sunday 20 July, 8:00 pm.         
Russell.

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